Charles Sumner: “Time would fail me to dwell on the perpetual influence, growing with…”

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Time would fail me to dwell on the perpetual influence, growing with time, which the Slave Power has exerted from the foundation of the government.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner discusses the growing influence of the Slave Power in American politics.

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